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Friday's Findings - April 2 2021
Adaptive Monitoring in Action: Whitebark Pine in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Date: April 2, 2021 from 2-2:30 p.m. eastern time
Speaker: Kathi Irvine, Research Statistician, Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center
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Chronic Wasting Disease: Can Science Save Our Dear Deer?
What’s in a name? Chronic wasting disease sounds ominous, too descriptive for comfort, almost impolite in its directness. It is, in fact, a truthful name for a disease and a real threat to North America’s cervids.
Use of Robotic DNA Samplers That Can Rapidly Detect Invasive Aquatic Species
USGS researchers and their collaborators demonstrated the efficacy of using robotic environmental DNA samplers for bio surveillance in freshwater systems, showing that samples collected, processed, and preserved by robotic sampler detect organism DNA in the environment at rates comparable to those collected traditionally by human technicians.
Publications
Effects of supplemental feeding on the fecal bacterial communities of Rocky Mountain elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Supplemental feeding of wildlife is a common practice often undertaken for recreational or management purposes, but it may have unintended consequences for animal health. Understanding cryptic effects of diet supplementation on the gut microbiomes of wild mammals is important to inform conservation and management strategies. Multiple laboratory...
Couch, Claire E; Wise, Benjamin; Scurlock, Brandon M.; Rogerson, Jared D.; Fuda, Rebecca K.; Cole, Eric K; Szcodronski, Kimberly E; Sepulveda, Adam J.; Hutchins, Patrick R.; Cross, PaulA reassessment of Chao2 estimates for population monitoring of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
The Yellowstone Ecosystem Subcommittee (YES) asked the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) to re-assess a technique used in annual population estimation and trend monitoring of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). This technique is referred to as the Chao2 approach and estimates the number of females with cubs-of-the-...
van Manen, Frank T.; Ebinger, Michael R.; Haroldson, Mark A.; Bjornlie, Daniel D.; Clapp, Justin; Thompson, Daniel J.; Frey, Kevin L.; Costello, Cecily M.; Hendricks, Curtis; Nicholson, Jeremy M.; Gunther, Kerry A.; Wilmot, Katharine R.; Cooley, Hilary; Fortin-Noreus, Jennifer; Hnilicka, Pat; Tyers, Daniel B.Water reliability in the west -- SECURE Water Act Section 9503(C)
No abstract available.
McGuire, Marketa; Gangopadhyay, Subhrendu; Martin, Justin; Pederson, Gregory T.; Woodhouse, Connie A.; Littell, Jeremy S.